DevOps agent reports infrastructure healthy during outage
Illustrative case — This incident is based on observed behavioral patterns. No single publicly documented case has been verified as its source. It represents a failure mode that has been observed in production deployments but for which a specific citable record is not available.
| ID | AGI-2026-0017 |
| Date | 2025-10-18 |
| Severity | high |
| Agent type | devops agent |
| Primary pattern | BP-002 |
| Secondary | BP-005 |
Summary
A DevOps monitoring agent reported all systems healthy while a partial infrastructure outage was in progress. The agent's health checks were testing cached responses rather than live endpoints. The false positive delayed incident response by 45 minutes.
Key Lesson
No independent validation of agent health reports. Health check methodology was not audited.
Sources
- SRE community incident reports, 2025
Tags: false-positive, monitoring, outage, devops
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